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Why not? Didn't Facebook create tools like GraphQL and React?
Netflix has created tools and open source libraries too. RxJava was opensourced by Netflix, the defacto standard for reactive programming in Java. They also open sourced a lot of their work for working with avif files, which has managed to find its way into Chrome, among other projects. Among other things.
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>”citizenry who have been convinced by propaganda that government can never be effective at anything and therefore should not be funded properly.” People are treating the Texas ice storm like it was some comeuppance event but the truth of the matter is that Texas rarely experiences this kind of winter weather and that’s the reason why it didn’t handle the big freeze the same way as a midwestern or northeastern state…
NERC created a report after the Texas 2011 ice storm power outage with recommendations for ERCOT generators to improve their weatherization standards [0]. In that report they referenced not only the 2011 incident but previous incidents where the grid generators failed to adequately prepare for potential problems due to weather related issues. In the 2021 storm, hundreds of people died. Comeuppance is not the right wo…
> A key value at Roblox is “Respect the Community,” Yet they still take a 30% cut on all transactions that go to content creators / developers
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I definitely see Netflix as a Media Company, much like Disney. Disney and Pixar have great tech too, but they are not tech company in any shape or form. How Netflix got lumped into "FAANG" aka Big Tech is still a mystery to me.
By that logic Facebook certainly wouldn't be a tech company either.
> A key value at Roblox is “Respect the Community,” Yet they still take a 30% cut on all transactions that go to content creators / developers
Isn't that basically the status quo from Apple and Google as well? Not to mention Steam. 30% feels high but at least for Roblox they built the game, I feel like that's much more justified than Google and Apple where they're just collecting a huge chunk because they have a captive market. With Roblox's ecosystem it doesn't feel quite as usurious as Google or Apple doing it on their app stores.
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Anything over 5% is highway robbery and the kind of thing that only exists in concerningly unregulated capitalism. I promise you someday legislation will put an actual legal limit there. Just wait for these zoomers to reach voting age.
Why is making 6% from your one funding source on an otherwise free-to-play product unreasonable? Do you think any markup of more than 5% is unreasonable? What about Apple's physical products? What about ... every retail store in existence? > Just wait for these zoomers to reach voting age. Ah yes, 50.
There is nothing Apple (or Google, or Robolox) does to justify more than a 5% cut. 5% is generous. In many cases they don't even take the time to have a human review every submission. You can say they built the platform, but aren't we already paying for that with our 5%?
And to your point, yes, when Zoomers reach 50, we'll see awesome things like companies losing the rights to their IP if they submit 3 bogus DMCA claims, extreme regulation of things like content-ID that threaten the existence of fair use in practice, outright banning of all lobbying and corporate political donations, things like this, etc etc.
My guess is Consul shit itself. It works until it doesn't. For now I prefer Zookeeper because at-least I have experienced most of it's failure modes. i.e they are probably all prone to blowing up but I have lost my eyebrows enough times in ZK explosions that atleast I know what I'm up against. Consul isn't widely used enough for me to have the same confidence for now, same goes for Vault and Nomad tbh. I really like…
> For now I prefer Zookeeper because at-least I have experienced most of it's failure modes. i.e they are probably all prone to blowing up but I have lost my eyebrows enough times in ZK explosions that atleast I know what I'm up against. Consul is insanely easy to fix if you keep backups. It is as simple as deploying a brand new cluster and restoring a known good snapshot. Sadly, a surprising amount of practitioners…
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By that logic Facebook certainly wouldn't be a tech company either.
I wonder how long it will take until people adopt their new name, and MAANG
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This is a benefit of a global company, not working remote. You could do all that stuff in multiple offices around the world.
In a global but not-remote company the team responsible for the particular service that failed is probably still concentrated in one office. Bringing in people from other offices who aren't familiar with the problem service probably isn't that helpful.
Remote teams are usually concentrated in the same timezone too. In-office global companies make a point of having at least a few teams owning a service for this very reason.